Photo by Jacob Forsyth-Davies
Queer Film Night is a volunteer led organisation. We organise screenings on the second Tuesday of every month at the Edinburgh Student Housing Coop. We started making our own films, a documentary and an animated selkie film. We also run video and photography workshops. Join us for the screenings, come learn new skills at the workshops and support us and our productions.
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Special Event – Resistance in Residence
QFN special: Winnie Herbstein & exhibition Resistance in Residence. 20/02/23, 8:30pm at ESCH
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Reel Injun
Indigenous focus: 13th of February 2023 at 8:30pm at ESCH. Reel Injun (2009)
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Zero Patience
Next Queer Film Night is a Guilty Pleasure QFN !! A (terrible) musical? A delightful camp comedy? A militant film about AIDS? An iconic gay film? Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993) is all of this, and more. John Greyson denounces the myth of a “patient zero” in the AIDS epidemics by having his character Zero…
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The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman (1996) is Cheryl Dunye’s documentary(?) about Fae Richards, a Black lesbian actress and Cheryl’s own life as she’s making the film. Mixing archives and 1990s video footage the films offers a glimpse at the Black lesbian scene in the 1930s and 1990s in Philly. The film playfully foregrounds issues of (queer) ancestry,…
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Queer Indigenous Shorts
I’ve been talking about it for a while and it’s finally happening! Next Queer Film Night will be a special evening of queer Indigenous shorts . There will be shorts from North America, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Hawaii. Including the stunningly beautiful Kapaemahu directed by teacher, activist, and filmmaker Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Kanaka/Native Hawaiian). This animated short…